First of all, if you are looking for a family members grave and find a picture here, please contact me for permission to use it. Whether or not you were directed here by Ancestry or Billion graves.com. Please ask me first. Thank you

Unknown we are to each other...through time our paths have crossed...so as we visit one to another...know as family you shall never be lost.

I consider Cemeteries to be outdoor museums.I am proud to be referred to as "The Family Historian."

THE CEMETERY PHOTOGRAPHER

Wandering among the stones I seeThe stones so weathered and worn‘Tis difficult to find the dateOn which the babe was born

I stare at the stone and am struck with aweAt the life that I knew was goneThis was someone's child, a babe so sweetWith loved ones to carry on

So I take a photo for all to seeFor the family that remainsAn everlasting memory ofA child of God's domain

I brush the weeds back from the stoneAnd say a silent prayerFor the babes that had no chance to liveAnd for mothers everywhere

The dove calls out it's mourning songAmong the stones so stillEchoes of the woes, through timeThe choirs of despair

The stone will someday perishThe flowers will be goneBut a photo now remains of thisTheir memory lives on!

And so my friend, don't hesitateTo film the weathered stoneThose who live within your heartsAre never truly gone.

I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith. 2 Timothy 4:7

My mother's uncleGood Morning, my mother has been searching for her uncle's gravesite for over four years now. She has found everyone of her father's side of the family except him. His name is Lawrence G. Patterson. His wife's name was Eunice Patterson and we have located her obituary. L.G's parents were George and Ollie Patterson. L.G was born in 1906 and died in 1968 and although his wife was buried in Topeka, Kansas, we cannot find his grave there or anywhere else we have searched. Could you please help us?

I did have another thought after I sent the message. Her stone may be a cenotaph but there's no way of knowing that until the headstone is in place. If it says "In Memory Of" above her name it means it's a memorial only stone.

RE: Albert PC Aliangan #102389292Thank you for your reply. I just thought if she sent you a message other than leaving one directly on your page, her email address may have been displayed being it may have been sent your email address directly. I appreciate your quick response. The only way I can message her is directly on her page. My fingers are crossed she'll wind up back on here soon :)

Albert PC Aliangan #102389292Hoping you can help me... Just within the last 24 hours, you transferred Albert's grave to his daughter Annie. Her father served on the USS Pyro years ago and she just contacted me by phone yesterday... I assume she found my contact info through the USS Pyro Association's web page, as I'm one of their board officers. We discussed her father's grave, as there's no headstone and hasn't been since he was buried in 2012. We discussed the Pyro Association helping her with the cost & organization of if since her family doesn't have the money and they are now in the Philippines. Regretfully, she didn't give me an email address before we hung up and we agreed her tel no would be on my caller ID and I could save it after our call (no need to write it down). I am left with no way of reconnecting with her :( I told her about find a grave and she was going to establish an account as we hung up. I then also realized he has two (duplicate) memorials. One is mine (170621749) and the one you transferred to her was yours. She must have sent you an email for the request... Could I ask you to please forward her email address to me? I'd be forever grateful. You can see the photo of his memorial that I'm managing and it clearly shows a pile of dirt :( You can also verify I'm legit either by my profile here or on the USS Pyro's website. Hope that helps ease any question you may have. I promise you I'm not a psycho trying to get an email address on her. Thanks so much for your help!